Reflections on Robert Frost’s

North of Boston, published in England in May of 1914, was Robert Frost’s second book, following A Boy’s Will, which had been published the year before. In 1915 it was published in America, preceding A Boy’s Will here. The book is markedly different from A Boy’s Will, in that it is less introspective and more in an objective mode. In the first book Frost gives us a speaker who, in most cases, is …showed first 75 words of 2339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2339 total…a poem’s message to become more important than is the natural, conversational sound of his verse. Works Cited Thompson, Lawrence. Robert Frost. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1959. Pritchard, William. Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. Amherst, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. Untermeyer, Louis. Introduction and Commentary: The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost’s Poems. New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1971. Lathem, Edward. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1975.